Friday, August 26, 2011

First Purchase




I purchased this partially finished house in January 2011 and have 1 year to work on it before I have to actually pay for it. It is a house built of ICF block (styrofoam of sorts with a concrete poured center - about 13" thick in most places) that is about 22,000 square feet which includes a 6,000 square foot area surrounding an indoor pool. One funny thing is that the pool is almost complete - having been built out of the same ICF block as the rest of the house!

There is a center section which used to be a 'GREAT' room that is about 2,500 square feet all on it's own, with a 2 story wing going off to each side of this Great Room that are about 4,000 square feet each - 2,000 on each floor. Add to this a large 'studio' behind the garage and another 3,000 square feet in the daylight basement and you get about 19,500 square feet - who knows where the other 3,000 is... There is a garage on each side of the side - one side can easily fit 4 cars and the other can easily fit another 2.

The style was convoluted country with a high pitched roof complete with 2 - 21 foot tall pieces of natural basalt rock that stood in the Great Room. There was a partial roof over both garages but the rest of the house had been left totally open to the elements for the past 2-3 years.

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